How should we deal with creationism in schools (Reverend Prof Michael J Reiss - 21 Jan 2016)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures   2016年1月26日
Speaker: Reverend Prof Michael J Reiss
UCL Institute of Education
To many people's surprise, creationism has become more common in British schools. How should teachers respond in science lessons and religious education lessons? Should we try to reduce the incidence of creationism? And what about Intelligent Design? Join Reverend Professor Michael Reiss as he explores these questions and more.

Do fad diets work? - Mia Nacamulli

source: TED-Ed    2016年4月11日
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Conventional wisdom about diets, including government health recommendations, seems to change all the time. And yet ads routinely come out claiming to have THE answer about what we should eat. So how do we distinguish what’s actually healthy from what advertisers just want us to believe is good for us? Mia Nacamulli gives the facts on fad diets.
Lesson by Mia Nacamulli, animation by Avi Ofer.

陳義裕：廣義相對論的新世紀 — 從難以置信到不可或缺 (探索14-2講座 )

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心 影音平台 2015年10月20日
說明說明根據愛因斯坦的廣義相對論，重力是時空彎曲所導致的現象。但什麼是彎曲的時空­？為什麼彎曲的時空就會產生重力？愛因斯坦的重力理論和牛頓的理論又有什麼差別？這場­演講將從這一連串的問號出發，嘗試著以更具體、更直觀的方式將廣義相對論呈現出來。

而在介紹過它的實驗證據後，我們想談一下，它能為今日以及未來天文學提供什麼樣的獨特­研究工具。但廣義相對論的宿命，就只是一堆看似不食人間煙火的探究之堆砌而已嗎？這個­問題，尚待聽完演講之後的你來幫忙回答......
活動官網：http://case.ntu.edu.tw/ex/Einstein
2015/10/17 pm2：00 ,臺灣大學應用力學館國際會議廳

Abby Smith Rumsey: "When We Are No More: How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年3月28日
Abby Smith Rumsey talks on how memories shape who we are and how the digital age affects this.
WHEN WE ARE NO MORE explores the extraordinary ability of humans to accumulate and share knowledge across time and space. Rumsey shows how our personal and cultural memories are intimately intertwined; how both are shaped and sometimes controlled by political forces and economic interests; and how our digital abundance makes it harder, not easier, to secure important historical archives for future generations. She explains what each of us can do today to ensure people tomorrow will be able to access records of today. Trained at Harvard as a Russian scholar, Rumsey has worked in Soviet-era archives, spent a decade at the Library of Congress, and has consulted on digital collecting and curation, intellectual property issues, and the economics of digital information for a variety of universities and the National Science Foundation.
On behalf of Authors at Google, this talk was hosted by Boris Debic.

Modern Philosophy: David Hume by Gregory B. Sadler

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source: Gregory B. Sadler  2013年4月29日/上次更新：2014年6月15日
In this lecture/discussion session from my 2013 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, we finish up our study of David Hume's classic work in Philosophy of Religion, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by focusing on most of the arguments about God's existence and God's nature made between his three interlocutors -- Philo, Demea, and Cleanthes. After engaging in some review about terminology , we look first at Demea's a priori cosmological arguments. Then, we examine in more detail Cleanthes a posteriori arguments from analogy, i.e. design arguments, and examine what makes such arguments strong or weak. We then look at the alternative models of divinity proposed by Philo, and finish by discussing whether we can really know anything about a transcendent God's nature

Intro to Philosophy: David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (the arguments) 1:05:23
Intro to Philosophy: Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 1:03:50
David Hume: "The Natural History of Religion" 1:07:01

RSA Replay: Creative Public Leadership for Innovative Schools

source: The RSA   2016年3月14日
How can we create a movement, supported by new systems, platforms and relationships, to promote radical innovation at all levels of public education?
As part of the WISE Research series, a recent pillar of the WISE Initiative, the RSA and the Innovation Unit have produced a new report which sketches out a road-map to facilitate system-level change in education, and introduces a new set of ideas around the creative public leadership required to inspire, drive and achieve such change.
At this launch event, co-hosted by the RSA and WISE, Joe Hallgarten and Valerie Hannon will present the report and will be joined by an expert panel to share thoughts on innovation in education and the need for relevant research to turn ideas into action.

Joseph Henrich: "The Secret of Our Success" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google   2016年3月7日
Joseph Henrich talks how culture is driving human evolution, domesticating our species, and making us smarter. Humans are a puzzling species. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? Joseph Henrich's book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.

Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.

Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.

Henrich is professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He also holds the Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, and Co-evolution at the University of British Columbia, where he is a professor in the departments of psychology and economics. He is the coauthor of "Why Humans Cooperate" and the co-editor of "Experimenting with Social Norms."
Talk hosted by Boris Debic.

Jean Piaget (Constructivism) by Jordan B. Peterson (2014)

source: Jordan B Peterson  2014年1月22日
Lecture 5 of Personality and its Transformations (2014)
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Jean Piaget, renowned developmental psychologist, helped us understand how the child built its own personality during exploration, and how that personality was further shaped by the games people play.

Personality and its Transformations, 2014 (Jordan B. Peterson / U of Toronto)

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source: Jordan B Peterson  2014年1月16日/上次更新：2016年1月20日
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Lecture 01: Introduction and Overview 1:10:07
Lecture 02: Mythological Representations 1:20:13
Lecture 03: Heroic & Shamanic Initiations (Part 01) 1:19:34
Lecture 04 Heroic & Shamanic Initiations (Part 02) 1:22:17
Lecture 05: Jean Piaget (Constructivism) 1:20:11
Lecture 06: Carl Jung (Part 1) 1:14:58
Jordan Peterson: 9. Sigmund Freud II (Depth Psychology) - Personality & Its Transformations 1:18:51
Lecture 10: Carl Rogers (Phenomenological Humanism) 1:13:24
Lecture 11: Existentialism: Viktor Frankl 1:12:02
12. Binswanger & Boss (Phenomenology) - Personality & Its Transformations 1:13:20
13: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism) 1:17:39
14. Psychometrics (Biology and Traits) Personality & Its Transformations 1:08:03
15. Limbic System & Goals (Biology and Traits) Personality & Its Transformations
1:18:54
Lecture 16: Extraversion & Neuroticism (Biology & Traits) 1:14:49
Lecture 17: Agreeableness and gender differences 1:17:36
20. Conscientiousness (Biology & Traits) Personality & Its Transformations 1:12:23
21. Performance Prediction (Biology & Traits) Personality & Its Transformations 1:13:47
22. Psychology & Belief (Conclusion) Personality & Its Transformations 1:18:31

The German Intellectual Tradition: Phase 1

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source: Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan  上次更新：2015年8月13日

A series of lectures by eminent scholars; coordinated by Professor Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, former S. N. Banerjee Professor of Political Science, Calcutta University. As we know, the German intellectual
tradition is of crucial importance for understanding of social sciences. Many important clues to the understanding of new perspectives like the debate on modernity and Enlightenment, postmodernism, post-colonialism, identity and self, etc. can be traced to the contributions of the German tradition. Considering the importance of this theme, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata is going to launch a programme of lectures on the following thinkers, namely, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Max Weber,
Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Lukács, Popper, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Arendt, Benjamin and Habermas. The first phase of the Programme (September, November, 2013; January, March, 2014) will cover four lectures on Kant, Hegel, Marx and Max
Weber. Each thinker would be discussed in two sessions, the duration being of two hours each. The sessions will be addressed by eminent resource persons, followed by interaction with the participants.

Part I - Immanuel Kant: Session I - Lecture by Professor Subir Ranjan Bhattacharya 2:16:45  
Part I - Immanuel Kant: Session II - Lecture by Professor Gopal Chandra Khan 1:02:16
Part II -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Session I - Lecture by Professor Pralhad Sarkar 1:23:48
Part II -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Session II - Lecture by Professor Krishna Roy 1:29:48  
Part III -Karl Marx: Session I - Lecture by Professor Saurin Bhattacharyya 1:32:29
Part III -Karl Marx: Session II - Lecture by Professor Samik Bandyopadhyay 1:28:58
Part IV -Max Weber: Session I - Lecture by Professor Prasanta Ray 1:28:59
Part IV -Max Weber: Session II - Lecture by Professor Abhijit Mitra 1:28:59